Quotes On: Compassion

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely, and the unwanted according to the graces we have received, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough; money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

To be social is to be forgiving.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.